WEBVTT THEY'VE STARTED DISTRIBUTING ATHOUSAND FULL-COLOR POSTERS OFTHE EIGHT WHO WERE KILLED INCOLD BLOOD.THE WORDS MATCH THE DIRECTVISUAL CONNECTION WITH THEFACES.DO YOU KNOW WHO MURDERED US ONAPRIL 22, 2016?"IT'S SOMETHING," SAID TONYRHODEN.WITH THE KILLERS STILL OUT HERESOMEWHERE, HE DECLINED TO APPEARON CAMERA BUT TOLD US "IT'LL MAKE YOU FEELLIKE YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING.IN THIS CASE, YOU HAVE TOBELIEVE IN SOMEBODY.I GOT TO BELIEVE IN THE SYSTEM.AS FAMILY MEMBERS, WE HAVE TOBELIEVE IN SOMEBODY."EIGHT PEOPLE ACROSS THREEFAMILIES, RANGING IN AGE FROM 44TO 16.ALL SHOT IN THE HEAD IN WHATINVESTIGATORS TERMEDMETICULOUSLY PLANNED EXECUTIONS.>> I WAS SAYING THIS MORNING,AFTER YOU CALLED, I THOUGHTTHEY'RE STILL OUT THERE.THEY CAN DO THIS AGAIN.JOHN: PASTOR PHIL FULTON KNOWSTHE FAMILY AND THE CONNECTIVEPOWER OF PUTTING FACES TO ATRAGEDY.>> WHEN THEY SEE PICTURES, YOUNGPEOPLE, MOMS, DADS, THAT THELIVES WERE TAKEN, MAYBE IT'LLJUST BRING SOMEBODY TO STIRSOMETHING IN SOMEBODY'S HEART.JOHN: THE FAMILY WILL SPREAD THEPOSTERS ACROSS WAVERLY, ADAMSCOUNTY, SCIOTO COUNTY, ANDBEYOND.THE FIRST OF THEM WENT UP TODAYAT BIG BEAR LAKE FAMILY RESORT.AS THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARYAPPROACHES, THERE IS A HAUNTINGSENSE OF MYSTERY ALONG RURALUNION HILL ROAD."IT'S FRUSTRATING," ALLOWEDRHODEN."WE HAVE TO STICK TOGETHER ANDCOMFORT EACH OTHER.">> IT'S NOT THAT PEOPLE HAVEN'TSTOPPED TALKING ABOUT IT, BUT ITHINK PEOPLE GOT TO A PLACE THEYTHINK, WELL, WILL IT EVER BESOLVED?JOHN: "IT'LL COME," RHODEN SAIDWITH A HOPEFUL NOD TO THEPOSTERS."I REALLY BELIEVE THAT.IT MIGHT TAKE A YEAR OR IT MIGHTTAKE TEN YEARS, BUT IT'LL COME."INVESTIGATORS HAVEN'T SAID MUCH,ONLY THAT THEY BELIEVE THERE ISMORE THAN ONE KILLER AND KNEWTHE LAY OF THE FAMILY LAND.IN PIKE COUNTY, JOHN LONDON,

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With no breakthrough in the investigation, remaining family members are following a familiar strategy to keep the case front and center.

They started distributing a thousand posters of the eight who were killed in cold blood.

The words on the poster matched the direct visual connection with the faces.

They read, "Do You Know Who Murdered Us On April 22, 2016?"

"It's something," said Tony Rhoden.

With the killers still out in society somewhere, he declined to appear on camera.

But Rhoden told us, "It'll make you feel like you're doing something," in reference to the poster distribution.

"In this case, you have to believe in somebody," he said. "I got to believe in the system. As family members, we have to believe in somebody."

Eight people across three families were killed nearly a year ago.

They ranged in age from 16 to 44.

All of them were shot in the head in what investigators termed “meticulously planned executions.”

Investigators haven't said much, only that they believe there is more than one killer and that they knew the lay of the family land.

"I was saying this morning after you called, I thought they're still out there. They can do this again," said Pastor Phil Fulton, who knows the family as well as the connective power of putting faces to a tragedy. "When they see pictures, young people, moms, dads, that these lives were taken. Maybe it'll just bring somebody to stir something in somebody's heart."

The faces of the victims add a new, personal dimension to the publicity effort that has a goal of generating information to help solve the case. The faces are those of Christopher Rhoden, Sr., Dana Manley Rhoden, Chris Rhoden, Jr., Hanna Rhoden, Frankie Rhoden, Kenneth Rhoden, Gary Rhoden and Hannah Gilley.

The family intends to spread the posters across Waverly, Adams County, Pike County, Scioto County and beyond.

The first of them went up today at Big Bear Lake Family Resort.

As the anniversary approaches, there is a haunting sense of mystery along rural Union Hill road.

"It's frustrating," allowed Rhoden. "We have to stick together and comfort each other."

"It's not that people haven't stopped talking about it," said Fulton. "But, I think people got to a place they think, well, will it ever be solved?"

"It'll come," Rhoden said with a hopeful nod to the posters. "I really believe that. It might take a year or it might take 10 years, but it'll come."